Installing uVision5

A free evaluation version of the IDE known as the MDK-ARM Lite edition, running (albeit with limited functionality) under the Windows operating system, is available for download. The main limitation of the environment is that programs that generate more than 32 KB of code cannot be compiled and linked (see http://www.keil.com/demo/limits.asp). However, since most programs written by novices tend be quite small, this limitation is not a serious problem. For those who expect their executable image to exceed 32 KB, other open source compiler and IDE options are considered in Chapter 9, Embedded Toolchain.

uVision5, the latest version of the IDE is distributed as two components. An MDK core contains all the development tools, and ...

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